skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other people not wearing a mask makes me less safe

Yes, but that's been true for a long time, even before covid. I'm betting you didn't mistrust non-mask-wearers pre-covid even though I'm sure several millions have died in the US alone since early 1920s because people with the flu or other contagious diseases didn't wear a mask and went to work sick, etc. You just didn't notice because it happened at a rate that didn't overload hospitals.

> If they can't even take a basic precaution during a deadly pandemic then their judgement seems dangerously impaired.

Well imagine all of your news sources downplay covid and even when you get it yourself it's not as bad as the hysteria led you to believe - just some mild flulike symptoms and loss of smell and taste. You start to mistrust all of the zealots forcing you destroy the economy^, handicap an entire generation of students, destroy the mental wellbeing of many millions, in order to extend the lives of the elderly and immunocompromised by a few years. It's hard to put the blame 100% on the anti-masker. Plus, just because someone isn't wearing a mask doesn't automatically make them an anti-masker. I don't wear a mask when social distancing is possible, for example (like when going on runs).

^ Yes I know stock market is at all time high right now, but you can't just keep running an economy on printed money. If you aren't actually producing, soon all that paper you've printed will become a lot less valuable ("inflation") and the bubble will burst and you'll see what a real crisis looks like.
In a climate such as this it feels incredibly hard to get a nuanced understanding of the reliability of voting machines. That feels very problematic.
In other words the instructions on how to run qmail without security holes were clearly displayed in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.
Moxie Marlinspike gave a talk at 36C3 about the issues of decentralized systems and why Signal decided to not go that direction.

In short, his argument was largely chat ecosystems are constantly evolving but decentralized protocols tend to ossify. Thus, decentralized protocols will ultimately not be able to keep up with the demands of the users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

Lots of people point to email as an example. I'd like to also point out the phone system and its codecs as another example. Most phone calls behind the scenes are using SIP to handle connectivity. SIP is codec agnostic, you could technically use any kind of codec in the RTSP stream. Its a very decentralized protocol, and highly extensible. And yet it seems like almost every time you try and place a call, the only codec anyone else supports is G.711, a codec released in 1972 and hasn't had a major update since 2000. We're slowly seeing G.722 adoption now that the patents have run out (HD voice on cell phones) but even then this is spotty. Meanwhile every other chat platform out there has moved on to more efficient and higher quality codecs because all it took was the chat platform owner to push one version update out.

The decentralized communications network is only just now finally adopting and rolling out a _33 year old_ codec. Sure sounds like a win for decentralized systems!
I agree. The intention might have been good - but the outcome is the opposite.
Is there a claim to the contrary in the article?
Banning Huawei is legitimate US security, but OpenStandards are EU protectionism. Got it.
Do defamation lawsuits tend to chill speech that isn’t defamation? I would assume not.
I want to install electrical charge points in my building's 200 car garage. Does anyone have suggestions on solutions for this?
I always wonder how stories get upvoted enough to make it to the front page, if /new isn't being checked in critical mass.
Spitballing a few more potential applications:

Just imagine how cheap getting your multi-engine qualifications will become.

Floatplane cert could become a lot cheaper too.
Agree with your sentiment. Contextuality and Applicability are definitely two main components when it comes to knowledge acquisition. But there are people who just derive pleasure from learning, irrespective of whether the concepts are connected or disjoint, and I think it is very important that we have all variety of people, and encourage them into pursuing what gives them satisfaction.
I recently tried to use pdoc on a system that can never have internet connectivity. Looks like pdoc implicitly expects internet connectivity because it wants to get at a bunch of .js and css files online.

Did I just overlook something?

If the tool really does expect connectivity, any plans to inline these resources so pdoc can be fully capable of running on an offline system?

It's so much easier to setup and get going with than Sphinx that it seems a real shame to have to be online.
Totally an aside but I wish GitHub would at least excerpt readme.md on the top; having to scroll past a list of files to figure out what this is is annoying.
Better fix: switch to an EV!
I'm a bit older, was pretty fit & healthy and also a programmer. That didn't matter much to the virus though and I can recommend skipping this one.
The UK started efforts to join the EEC just 4 years after the Treaty of Rome.

Its entry was personally blocked 3 times by Charles De Gaulle before finally being allowed to join in 1973.

When the UK finally left in 2020 it had been a member for 47 years.

I wouldn't describe that as coming late and leaving promptly.

As for never buying the EU project, a 1975 referendum on EEC membership was won by a comfortable 34.4% majority.

Where as the 2016 vote leave campaigns won with just a 3.7% majority, having broken the rules on spending.

I would say that many of us in the UK buy the EU project and are unhappy about the leave result still.

To this day the reports on foreign interference have not been compiled or fully published by the current Conservative government.
For a community (HN) so focused on technology and the future, I'm surprised to see support for antiquated technology such as paper ballots.

Does the future of voting not belong to online remote voting, like almost everything else? You can even buy a house from your phone now. In the future, we will know the results of the election as soon as the online polls close.

The future is paperless.
There's a new service SO could offer: help a company under attack or recently attacked correlate the methods with suspicious users on SO, based on IP addresses and the presumption that attackers would use the same system to get help as used in the attack.
was their headquarters in toronto really next door to a soros outfit's officespace?
PGM index should clarify it :)
There is always plain language in between terms such as “reductive process”, “value proposition canvas”, and “product definition”, of which I have no idea what they mean.
Odd, I find they're the best. Hold $5k in your chequing account and _everything_ is free! Even got myself a safe deposit box.

BMO has something similar but it's $6,000. The rest (last time I checked) didn't really offer something like that.
Asking whether an expensive wine tastes better than cheap ones is about as fatuous and asinine as asking whether an expensive computer is better than a cheap one. Where do you draw lines for comparison, the bottom 10% to the top 10% or say between the ranges of 10-20% and 70-80%? Also the taste for wine is often an acquired taste, so at what point in your learning experience do you start your comparison?

If one has to answer the question without any further information then the answer is an unequivocal yes but there's lots of caveats--too many to discuss here.

Some decades ago I had the misfortune to be a part of a wine tasting group run by a well known and highly respected wine aficionado and we tasted some of the generally agreed very best including Burgundies, Bordeaux first growths, etc. At one blind tasting we tasted all the 1945 first growths.

Those in the know will understand the significance of the '45 moniker. There's no doubt expensive wine of this caliber taste very significantly better than cheap wine (some would say that's an understatement). Incidentally, an interesting phenomena one notices with wines of such high quality is that there's no such thing as a person who doesn't like them--unlike good but lesser quality wines where experience counts for one's discernment, even inexperienced neophytes instantly know they're better.

Above, I mentioned that tasting truly excellent wines to be a misfortune because I now know how remarkably good and very different they are from not only cheap wines but also from otherwise excellent wines that are say ~10x cheap ones. Those remarkable wines have permanently damaged my palate, there's no way that I can afford to drink them again, nor am I ever likely to taste them again as their price has increased conservatively 10-50x since I tried them-- nevertheless their memory remains. For me, these days, even good wine tastes pretty ordinary.

(Incidentally, the pick of those '45s for me and most others there was the Haut Brion. Don't ask me to describe it as I don't have the vocabulary.)
"When you assume that homelessness is fundamentally caused by a fault in the person, "

When did I say that? The stuff I listed, like addiction, other medical issues, and the failings of the system aren't personal faults.

"I think you are vastly underestimating how easy it is to go from poor to homeless."

I've made no such claim. My claim is that finding food is probably not the main problem keeping homeless people homeless. You're talking about poor -> homeless, I'm talking about other direction of homeless -> poor (in response to the parent comment). Food may be a component, but I think it's more likely issues in the system like not hiring people with a record, medical or addiction issues, or just not being able to afford housing due to lack of good employment, property taxes. These are quite expensive compared to food and lack the level of charity and government support that is given to food (SNAP, WIC, food pantries, etc), not to mention individuals are more likely to give someone a meal than a place to stay or a job.
He wasn't. That was a Sidney Powell thing. I think this 4chan Post describes the Kraken very well:
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/301180971/#301180971

>This is my contribution to the Trump team's legal case against election fraud. The Kraken was a crowdsourced legal case that they were building with the help of hundreds of volunteer experts, but most of it never got to see the light of day. We were explicitly told not to release any information to the public because that could undermine their case, since it would expose our work to the ongoing media slander campaign and allow the defense to more easily prepare counterarguments. Clearly that's no longer a concern, so I'm publicly releasing my contribution to the case.

>Interactive Colab notebook with code and full replication of findings:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1PwiipIQif63EMCxGFYA...

>The key takeaway of this analysis is that the Biden vs. Trump advantage of a vote tally reporting batch is highly (i.e. extremely) correlated with meta information about the counting process itself. This implies that if you counted the votes a different way you would have gotten a different final total, which is absolutely preposterous and a clear indicator of fraud. Additionally, we don't see this happen
The US audience is not going to connect that “TD Bank” = “Toronto Dominion Bank”.
Nice. I've been so burnt out seeing the same type of content for certain topics I follow. This looks like a promising tool for finding fresh new info.
The garfield is quite impressive for a kid, I suspect most people would have just drawn it in paint program, and bload'ed it off disk to the second graphics page, or similar trick to avoid manually computing all the vector points.

That said, I guess it comes from looking at games like KQ where (presumably to save disk space) they draw a vector outline and then flood fill the areas to create scenes.
Mutex in Nodejs, ROTFL.
This kind of bad programming leads to overuse of synchronization primitives.
Nodejs is single threaded and doesnt need locks and mutexes. In any application.
Properly writing code will make synchronization unnecessary. In the provided example, the saveBalance function should not overwrite the values of balance variable but rather increment its value (increment with negative too).
That's it your problem is solved, one line of code to change.
My understanding is that there are a few different factors:

For many of them, there's something to be gained (e.g. financially via a youtube channel, or even just karma points), which keeps engagement from fizzling out

There's also the age old cultism phenomenon: people want to be part of something, because it feeds their ego somehow (e.g. "pff, look at those sheep") and/or because of some sense of community ("oh wow, I never thought so many people thought like me")

And the thread that unifies everything is the belief they are scientifically correct because they are applying empirical observation. Of course, the unfortunate gap is that they don't truly understand how to use/interpret the tools of the scientific method (e.g. they may not know how to empirically derive physics equations from experiments, or they may not understand concepts like falsibiability, or even account for blind spots in "common sense" such as why are tides a thing, etc)
Nice, are you using it in production? First time I hear about SocketCluster
Won’t baseless accusations of no voter fraud undermine the confidence even more?

After all, is there any evidence for voter fraud in Russia?
Not OP, but I have a 1,000 high quality notes, so I feel a little qualified to talk about this.

1. Emacs + Org mode & Org Roam.

2. All my notes are synced in Dropbox so I can use the beorg app on iOS.

3. Any time I need a note (be that to look for one or create one) I have a shortcut, Cmd + N and I start typing a topic (Health, Xcode, Java, etc). If i've found a match it shows up in a list, if there is no match there is a prompt to create a new note. I don't care about overlapping notes because;

4. Search over notes by pressing Cmd+F. This starts a fzf search over the notes. If I see multiple notes on the same topic I can link them using org-roam references, consolidate them if they are similar enough, or if I don't care just leave it as is.

People always commend me on my astounding memory. It's all down to org-mode.
(con't) An abstraction is the smallest unit of reason, and logic creates the desired cause and effect as each truth flows through the system.
I think that having "searchable history" of every individual is precisely one of the negative contributions of social networks to social cohesion.

Everyone, or almost everyone, has some objectionable material or behavior in their past, and if you start judging people on the worst they ever did, you will come to distrust everyone.
Don’t worry, it’s much more likely that you’ll be killed by someone who is texting and driving some other make of car.
But if you are inventing or implementing a general purpose data structure, then you can not assume any structure by definition, especially not when it comes to worst case performance. On the other hand you can certainly include special handling of common special cases that will improve the performance or even come up with special data structures that only work under specific circumstances but then outperform general purpose solutions. As always it is a trade-off, here between generality and performance.
I'm pretty sure the article intends that to just be a demonstration of where progress in the entire field of anti-aging is at.

That being said, it's probably not in a submarine (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html) article about European VC firms's best interest to start off by hyping an Israeli development.
How would anyone know they are baseless unless a proper investigation is conducted independently? What about the thousands of sworn affidavits? Surely, ALL of them can't be lying.
The float plane operators in the lower mainland doing quick hops from Vancouver to Victoria or Whistler don't really have a lot of concern for money, I don't think. Their passengers aren't especially price-sensitive and there's more demand than supply a lot of the time. And the motor manufacturer is funded by a Singaporean private investor.

It's a gamble that people will care about environmental concerns more than price. In Vancouver that's a decent bet.
I was a heavy Slashdot user before the takeover, and now Hacker News fills the hole in my browsing that Slashdot left. If you're like me, you'll remember the many articles about the vulnerability of Diebold voting machines. This has always been a concern, since at least the early '00s or before. I guess people have a very selective amnesia.
The purpose of battle is to end it and limit the violence. The natural way, as in not swimming against the tide, is to bring civility to martial conflict. Military instruction on writing may be inspirational to people who short change some pursuits of knowledge. It may also be a giant trap, led to lure the naive and adolescents to the land of I Have No Mouth and Must Scream. Please do not turn everything into a special ops mission. The real face of conflict is ugly, human degradation and slow motion suicide that spreads across generations.

The article mentions Churchill, who would watch movies with naval officers about Nelson and Raleigh and be moved to tears. School kids today watch movies that would make him vomit or be forever horrified. That's a much better emotion if you are going to led a martial life. RoboCop, or Saw would be better movies to show the officers of the Royal Navy. Something that really creates horrific anger because of sadistic cruelty.

Instead of Nelson, may I direct everyone to one Eugene Fluckey, who after winning the Medal of Honor, demanded a return to the Pacific. His officers mandated a psychiatric assessment, which he failed, due to his novel ideas of submarine mounted rocket launchers, bombardments, boarding parties, and shore raiders. Immediately he returned to the fight and went on to build under water launched nuclear missiles. That was close to 100 years ago. With the weaponization of space, on the scale of solar systems, galaxies, maybe even everything, imagine what we can do to each other. Awful.

Killing other people is never a good thing. If anything should be censored, it's this, the pursuit of the martial, as in teaching your children how to use fatal combat techniques and intelligence on one another. They get it enough. We have enough of it in the world already.
I was writing as a European in Europe rather than Cloudflare's CTO.
>> I don't see how the state can manage a problem better than a city.

> This is the core argument of economic conservatism. One level up is “CA knows CA better than the Feds”. One level down is “I know my family better than my town”.

And one argument against it is that the lower level that "knows better" may not actually have the resources or capabilities to actually address the problem with that knowledge. That's pretty easy to see when you get down to the “I know my family better than my town [does]” level, when the only individual-level solution is some improbable pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps fantasy.
My first thought based on the video is that its serverless, so it can't be deplatformed or taken down, but it does not appear to be the case since you are still hosting it somewhere, so those looking for having a blog that can't be deplatformed will be disappointed. I believe there are other products that DO do that to some extent, though.

However, taking out that premise, it still looks interesting, and I would love to try it out. I tried to get someone on one of the static site generators but just getting everything setup on their computer and then teaching them the needed workflow was not trivial, and not something I would try again with anyone less tech-savvy or without being there with them during setup and teaching. I've seen platforms that simplify, but then you are paying a fee again for that too.
Dissent is only to be tolerated when it's politically convenient. Come on, man.
pdoc produces completely standalone HTML files with no dependencies and no JS. Even the collapsible navigation on small screen sizes is implemented in CSS only. Take a look yourself: https://pdoc.dev/docs/pdoc.html

You were probably using pdoc3, a hostile fork. See my other post. :(
I know, so getting rid of mosquitoes would get rid of their spider predators, letting would spiders take over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
Ding Ding Ding.

You should win a prize for the only comment here to get it.

In the absence of both shared values and goals, trust is harmful.
Love it when corporations use lawsuits to chill speech
I remember a lot of accusation about Diebold voting back in the 2000s, and concerns about lack of auditability. My understanding is that newer systems now let you vote at a machine, but it spits out a receipt that the voter can verify and the county can hold on to for the sake of audits and recounts. Is this standard now, or on a state by state basis?
I came exactly to promote this. Thank you.
This is not what is happening. Time and time again the repeated phrase is there is no evidence of _widespread_ voter fraud.
Software is more like building a machine than either math or art. There've been attempts to make formally-provable programs (so it _is_ like math) but these are not in widespread use.

Go watch the Lockpicking Lawyer on youtube pick locks and trivially crack/open every lock ever made. This is, roughly, the best physical analog to what happens with computer programs and safety. The creators are trying but they have to be correct everywhere, from every angle, and the attacker only needs to find one weakness to break it.
There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.

It's funny how things change. Just five years ago, HN was awash in people shouting that paper ballots are not secure and everyone should switch to electronic. Now the conventional wisdom is the opposite. Much like the way that in the 90's, keeping a password on a Post-It note was considered not secure, and now it's the safest thing going.
I've flown Harbour Air before and the flight from Vancouver to Victoria is just 30mins. Electricity isn't too expensive in BC and also generated cleanly. Perfect testing ground for the viability of electric planes.
shared values is an important part of trust though

That's actually a pretty big mistake society has made. You emphatically don't need to share values with someone to get along with them or work with them or trust them.

Focusing on values instead of goals and behaviors creates the environment of mistrust, because you don't know when someone is going to decide you don't share their values strongly enough and try to purge you. It also creates an environment where the people you want least are most willing to lie to fit in, and it gives them a weapon to use to push out anyone they don't like by amping up the values rhetoric.

If you want to build a club of terrified pretenders, filter by and focus on values. If you want to get something done and build an environment of trust, focus on shared goals, behaviors, and outcomes, and learn how to disagree and move on where consensus can't be reached.
Postmates still exists, or at least something does that operates under that name.
Hand counting can be manipulated too [0], so the idea that we can just move back to it and save our democracy is not accurate (or at least not a complete solution). In other words, dishonest politicians will find ways to exploit our fears even if we use paper ballots.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02613...